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Kate Elderkin
Kate Denny McKnight Elderkin (February 14, 1897Birth date and father's name from Kate Denny McKnight's 1920 application for a United States passport; historian Ida Thallon Hill, her cousin's partner, vouched for McKnight's citizenship on the same form; via Ancestry. – February 16, 1962) was an American art historian and archaeologist. She taught at Vassar College and was an editor of the ''American Journal of Archaeology'' with her husband, George W. Elderkin. Early life and education Kate Denny McKnight was born in San Diego and raised in Riverside, California, the daughter of Woodruff McKnight and Cora Burdon McKnight. Her father died when she was very young; her mother remarried, to Arthur Robinson Ocheltree. Both her father and her stepfather owned orange orchards in California. Her younger brother Arthur Ocheltree became an opera singer in the 1930s, and younger brother John Ocheltree was a Rhodes Scholar and a diplomat. She graduated from Vassar College in 1919, and earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Pierce Blegen
Elizabeth Denny Pierce Blegen (June 26, 1888 – September 21, 1966) was an American archaeologist, educator and writer. She excavated at sites in Greece and Cyprus, contributed reports on archaeological discoveries in Greece to the ''American Journal of Archaeology'' from 1925 to 1952, and was involved in several organisations promoting women's professional advancement in Greece and the United States. Early life and education Elizabeth Denny Pierce, known as 'Libbie', was born on June 26, 1888, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania to Flora McKnight and William Lemmex Pierce. She attended Vassar College from 1906 to 1910, and in 1912 she obtained an MA in Latin, with a thesis on the intellectual life of Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC), Gaius Asinius Pollio, a Roman Roman consul, consul (40 BC) and historian. Academic career In her first year at Vassar, Pierce met Ida Hill, Ida Thallon, who was to have a profound influence on her life and work. Thallon was a professor in the Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
